egyptians are preparing to avoid the draft constitution which has stormed the nation apart from the sparking a new wave of outrage and deadly string battles. also this hour slaughter on a par with pics calle the new us would point six people killed in a spree shooting most of them pupils understand. that crisis austerity crisis and now seemingly at the required says britain's finds food costs to mean that healthy options are out there every. international news life this is our she was me thanks for joining us egyptians are

said to decide the fate of a brand new constitution which has divided the nation and turned the streets in the country's key cities into battlefields a chorus of critics have pushed for the referendums delay saying that the islamic led document is flawed and not representative of the population and you can now get more on this from cairo based reporter truth good morning bell so the government has failed to meet the demands of many protesters and polling stations are due to open within an hour are there any fears of violence where you are right now. after three weeks of political turmoil that seen mass rallies against the president also bloody scenes in the streets of egypt's major cities overnight the military apparently beat up security at the polling stations ready for people to come and vote they have course have been called in by the presidents to secure the nation during this. time of political unrest and the referendum we expect out hundreds of

thousands of police officers and soldiers in the streets today ensuring that the scenes are calm this comes after violent scenes yesterday on friday at alexandria egypt second city which saw clashes between rival protest groups in support of the constitution and those against it including groups wielding machetes. also. and around about nineteen. possible. yet this of course follows several weeks worth of violence seats on the streets of cairo in particular into the presidential palace on wednesday where we saw at least ten people die between when and when there were clashes between rival groups again so yes people are very nervous that there will be violent scenes here today as the polling stations open here sunday why is the opposition's happy with the word it's a national referendum so people can vote against it condé. the actual process

itself or the referendum it is actually of a point of contention here we're not even sure how the polling stations will be run this is the basis that this is not judges to to monitor them this is why the referendum has been split into two days today we'll see ten governorates go to the polling stations we have a second round of elections on the twenty second in addition human rights groups who are supposed to be observing the polling stations to make sure there are no electoral fools have question whether that's possible at all specially since the head of the constituent assembly who drafted the constitution is also the head of the national human rights council who will be running the observation all the polls today the actual constitution itself of course is a major point of contention and has actually polarized egypt and two camps those with the president and his islam is the muslim brotherhood and those with the opposition forces under the banner of the national salvation front they say that the constitution itself will only bring about their religious state. force

a presidential dictatorship and key freedoms and rights this say they are massively against the constitution specially as it was pushed through very fast by the constituent concessional sadly they asked for it to be rewritten so really what we're going to see today is what egypt thinks whether they were very yes or no in this referendum and whether we'll be seeing a new constituent assembly and possibly a new drafting process in the future. based reporter boucher thank you very much indeed for the time to hand. and journalists turn to middle east analyst ahmed providers and likely to reflect the real change so the public. morsi is not showing any signs of flexibility he's not showing any signs of building consensus he is shown to be a very stubborn person regardless of the outcome of the referendum the scene in egypt right now it's indicative that there is going to be

a mess. playing with the results there is already reports about money and sustenance is being given to poor people to encourage them to go out and vote favorably with yes for the constitution and on the other side the egyptians are still divided into different groups and democratization of the voters are not going as it should have been going so it's not really representative of the nations when or of the consensus the truth have been existing. taking the chance to abandon old friendship to find its own ambitions helps washington to keep on the secret president assad hoping to win western support and support foothold in syria but turns a blind eye to internal conflicts that report that. the knife were in

ireland bill for a bell moscow and washington pushed through punitive legislation over human rights violations both sides accuse the child of meeting. one of the worst school shootings in the us history twenty six people gunned down in a us primary school in connecticut twenty of them young children pupils have tried to hide from the killing classrooms and closets but the bloodbath ended only when he turned the gun on himself a woman believed to be his mother was also found dead at her house. reports now on the massacre of innocent life. there's still lots of questions as to what happened at that elementary school in connecticut the shooter has not been officially identified at this point but according to various reports it was adam lanza a twenty year old who went into his mother's kindergarten class she was a teacher at that school and wiped out the entire class twenty children were killed in the carnage eighteen children died at the scene at the hospital those were five

year olds six year olds small children the shooter also targeted and killed six adults and unless his mother the teacher was also found dead in her home near the school the suspected three is the suspected shooter had three guns on him as he went into the school two handguns and one semiautomatic weapon all reportedly registered to adam lanza's mother a witness said there must have been one hundred rounds fired after killing all these people at unless they reportedly shot himself there has been a number of horrifying shootings at schools in the u.s. in the past but never has there been a rampage that killed this many small children in two thousand and seven a student killed thirty two people at virginia tech we of course remember the columbine massacre in colorado where two students struck and killed thirteen people and injured twenty four but the children killed in connecticut were very very young

we heard president obama delivered tearful speech this friday but nevertheless the white house has pretty much dodged questions on its gun policy and those are questions on many people's minds right now but the president does say it's time to take meaningful action to prevent mess occurs like this from happening again but what action he did not specify is the fact of the matter is that getting a gun is fairly easy in the u.s. adam lanza's mother apparently had no problem purchasing and registering story guns one of them a semi automatic weapon and it's a powerful deadly weapon one of the policy goals of president obama was a ban on assault weapons but is thought to be a lose. proposition for any politician in the u.s. to really seriously consider seriously take on the issue attempts to regulate guns inevitably hit a wall and that wall is the second amendment the right of the people to bear arms some states here do have controls over gun possession but again very limited controls the state of illinois for example used to have

a ban on concealed weapons but this week a federal court ruling struck down the country's last such poor vision as unconstitutional and ordered the state to craft a law allowing it so much for gun control in the us the state of wisconsin tossed out its ban on concealed weapons last year and it seems there is no way of arguing against the amendment even despite these absolutely horrifying and recurring incidents. once again triggered a wave of criticism that getting your hands on a weapon in america is too easy oh she's elizabeth went to the white house to sing and dance ronnie. many people are taking their concerns to the front of the white house as you can see about one hundred people are gathered here holding signs holding candles trying to make their voices heard saying that now is the time to talk about gun control in the u.s. we spoke to some of the protesters here's what they had to say today we saw

a roomful of kindergartners slaughtered by a guy who never should have gotten a gun. if our president can't talk about it the issue now as a father of two daughters young daughters i think it's time for him for a gut check in there's no more and no more excuses anymore this should not have happened we should have measures in place before this to prevent people from accessing guns who are not fit to hold them also in my opinion i don't think something that is military grade as an assault rifle i don't think that should be in the hands of anybody it's not a toy and we can't keep our teachers and our children and our school administrators safe and it very day we can't keep people who are walking down the streets safe then that should be changed and to resign ourselves to the to saying that this is a problem that has a solution is defeatist and we should we should take this on and change what we did hear from press secretary jay carney earlier this morning who said today is not the

day to be talking about gun control we also heard a very emotional speech from president obama sending his condolences to the victims to the family is in newtown connecticut he did not talk about the issue of guns or gun control but protesters here say if today is not the day in the wake of this very tragic mass shooting they don't know when that time. and washington liz wall are to. amman tomorrow crooning for the first time the cia's treatment of a terror suspect has been found to be. a european court of throws its weight behind a german citizen who was wrongly detained and the son of my friend members of the u.s. intelligence agency this is coming up for you later this hour. disregarding objections from moscow president obama has signed into law the magnitsky bell which targets russian and russians and deemed by washington to beguile to have rights violations moscow in turn is putting the finishing touches on a response which would punish americans for the same crimes are his tom barton now

reports on this seemingly take time to exchange this bill would target those accused of committing human rights crimes against russians some possible examples of that there has been a number of very emotive and controversial cases in the past few years of russian children adopted by u.s. citizens and in some cases those adoptions have resulted in the deaths or mistreatment of those russian children in one case starts of dimitri yakovlev a young boy he was left inside a car and died in extreme heat some russian lawmakers have considered attaching his name to the bill the bill also targets u.s. citizens accused of kidnapping or illegal imprisonment of russian citizens russia has for a long time so that is opposed to the twenty five year prison sentence given to

victor boot a businessman considered by america a dangerous arms dealer this russian build comes as a direct response to the surrogate magnitsky bill passed by u.s. lawmakers recently as a way to target russian officials accused by the us of involvement in the death of the lawyer surrogate magnitsky in prison in russia in two thousand and nine the night bill has now been signed into law by a us president barack obama. and the by a grand ole says he'd between moscow and washington including a look at possible repercussions and more waiting for me on our website.

the u.s. germany and the netherlands are deploying patriot missiles month by four hundred american troops in turkey next to see where as the northern border of defiance against possible cross border aggression the missiles range will extend deep into syrian territory and deployment could be the beginning of a no fly zone says historian and middle east expert jeremy salt. say the reason for staging the missiles on syria's border is not because of an attack by syria because there's actually no likelihood that syria is going to attack turkey in any case those missiles are to be directed against planes or ballistic missiles not against the artillery shells all mortars that informant cross for the the turkish border accidentally so the obvious question is why those fighters there and the speculation is based on the fact that perhaps they are there as the first step which is clearing a no fly zone and direct measurement intervention sometime next year and one has to

ask the question to the germans to the british museum or to the old if you can support in syria they are not supporting groups who are committed to democracy you know supporting groups who committed to political transition to not supporting groups to get into in any way in the formation of an open transparent state. so telecare is a convenient location to set up a u.s. base come next to syria only two years ago it supported president assad. said the of reasons behind the shop switching loyalties. he may have treated his command bridge for an apartment in istanbul but retired admiral turk or in return still keeps tabs on his country's foreign policy and he doesn't like what he sees like many turkish patriots the admiral believes his country is second fighting common sense and domestic concerns from western interests. turkey is looking at the middle east through america's eyes for its purity perspective for example with syria

turkey claims it wants to see democracy in syria but look who it's working with saudi arabia qatar and their democratic credit is one thing forget the zero problems with neighbors rule which in chorale has prided itself on for many decades critics now see turkey as dancing to one nation's. place. kill people but that does not suffice. because. in truth some. people internalize u.s. policy and represent us in the concrete. this is very tricky comes in joe graphically and culturally it's a great base camp for the likes of the u.s. and nato to take

a foothold in their anti acid ambitions it was just two years ago that turkey was calling bashar lost a brother and voting against sanctions on iran its relatively recent change of heart however may not have everything to do with turkey's desire to appease the west and may indeed be part of the plan by take its officials to become a regional if not global major players. but it was someone who used to go. it was true on top and in syria was part of the land but now syria is. a member of united nations. and independent state and turkey hasn't any rights on syria to intervene or syrian policy internal issues there is a conflict for thirty years interest and. mistake which of course is

an every day tens of. people young people lost their lives from both sides so. if you now don't. stop the bloodshed in turkey then think about syria or palestine. yet turkish officials seem to skirt the issue of their internal problems and instead turn their attention elsewhere syria the case in point with the likes of retired admiral in turkey believe the turkey shoot is a curse one should its present commanders continue on their prudent course if you. are right now is the christmas spirit becoming an obsession to buy as much as you can and will find out later no problems. go back to church to read the bible to find. remember what the holiday is supposed to be just

a people shouldn't think that every year has to be the best christmas ever. this late in the program a stray hit the streets of new york. but before that britons are now biting off less than they can share it seems as the cost of health of fruits move them beyond the reach of many people food prices that have gone up by that in just five years and leaving many families stuck on cheap prepackaged meals well she's portable carpets now on how stunned shopping lists are quickly becoming a luxury. do you look at what you're putting in your shopping basket health conscious customers might want to stock up on their fruit and vege but what if that's getting too expensive for families in the u.k. the cost of their weekly shop has gone up by over a third over the past five years and it's set to get more expensive still among the healthier fresh meat so you can find chicken breasts for five ninety nine per

kilogram and you've got your frozen process as retailing at one twenty nine in some cases now if you're a struggling household with lots of mouths to feed it's a no brainer britain is now in the midst of a nutritional recession to go hand in hand with the financial one over a million children in the u.k. a growing without a daily healthy meal now the coalition government provides free fruits and veggies to schools and they supplement those on the lower income but it looks like the cheap meal deals are often more appealing than the government health warnings health campaign to say it's time for the government to several new plan to get britain and struggling households to acquire not just the taste but also the means for a healthier diet. does a lot more waiting for us how website of course including a look at those whose love on a moles grows to four german government policies and the old bonding christianity

nice whole debate over just to amuse moral compass is pointing in the right direction. and also in line not afraid to get a good seat to look good and they say a young woman in russia dives into a rubbish three times to retrieve the makeup she accidentally threw way read all about her leap of faith. for the first time that cia has been found guilty of torture and european court has ruled that the rights of a german citizen who was mistaken for a terrorist by u.s. agents were languidly violated. as he was beaten and sodomized after being abducted and secretly flown to afghanistan back in two thousand and three d.

glasses now being sued for an apology and compensation author and historian doug of valentinus as this is unlikely to happen as the cia's stands about i don't. know cia officer ever will be will ever. prison or prison term even in you know it states of convicted of a crime these people are simply above the law the only thing that the cia does is to conduct illegal activities which is why it's above the law it's business doing things that are illegal so the fact that it's found. in europe or asia or south america or any place to do it legal very simply a call for gratian of what it does this you know is not a rogue bill of. those things without prior authorization from congress the president's national security officers everything that those policy.

another world headlines israel's hardline foreign minister has resigned from his post lieberman is facing indictment for breach of trust and fraud though he denies committing any crime earlier charges were dropped in a broader money laundering case which could have landed him in prison for over twelve years lieberman so hopes to run in the parliamentary election coming up in january his party has recently joined forces with that of the prime minister binyamin netanyahu alliance is to win a majority. so japan could be in for a change of government with the election now less than a day away paul sadr has the conservative liberal democratic party is likely to take over from the ruling democratic party the liberals leader has called for a tougher stance in the dispute with china of islands in the east china sea and him also reverse the trend to move away from nuclear power after the fukushima disaster

and he believes is the only way to leave the country as an interim. right christmas is a time when shops hope to do some brisk business but i'll choose resident else new yorkers if the festive spirit is turning into a shopaholic addiction. why have the holidays become such hellish days this week and let's talk about that it's a commercial thing now everyone just want to spend money it's not about what it really should be about how did that happen is that the media telling us to buy buy buy a absolutely it's everyone with their sales and absolutely i live on what people buy you know and i'm an independent sales rep so i depend on it so you're happy with this christmas i'm happy this christmas i sell luxury goods as long as people keep buying into i have a holiday that's it a way to stop that would be to go back to church to read the bible and to find faith and to remember what the holiday is supposed to be for what about people of

other religions as there is there anything for them i said i said to find religion . is there saving for them i believe in christianity but i think it's important that whether it's christiane to be or not that you have morals and values based on religious faith do you think there's a war in christmas oh i don't think there's a war on christmas i just think people shouldn't think that every year has to be the best christmas ever is that what we do we set our expectations too high we do i think that we should just enjoy it that each year should be a nice christmas with a couple of presents maybe full of press that's right along with the feeling of safety in community with holidays holidays also remind people believe or not this is just my opinion holidays remind people of their own mortality that we're not going to be around here very somber and our lives are very short. because we tend to remember the people who have gone on the holidays as well and that's why we p.c. the holidays we just want to feel safe we want to feel like i'm extending my time

here a little bit more and i want you to believe what i believe and maybe as someone others someone else's believes makes us feel better and that's exactly taking intro doses of approaching this fiscal cliff is not as much about. shopping this year as all the rest of my fifty nine years sixty of you are going to be a little bit different how you can do it differently. i have to say but it was going to be a phrasebook. just watching people make christmas and calling it a day like whether or not the world has lost its holiday spirit the bottom line is it wouldn't hurt any of us to take a look inside to find our own private reason to celebrate this the. coming out were invited on a trip to discover russia's northern port city of mormons that's after the break when elsie.

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. to meet. the world's leading. science technology innovation all the rest of melanin so from around russia we've got the future covered. at the moment screens in lines above the arctic circle and even for russia this is a tough climate to survive even when temperatures can stay below zero for eight

months of the year. of standing on the outskirts of the city of months it's right up in the fall north of russia and it's been the starting point for many polar expeditions i'm hoping that i'm going to get to try one or two arctic challenges plus. you have to be physically fit to survive on him and the people certainly seem to have a lot of energy one of the biggest annual events in a moment ski is the northern the lympics a collection of winter games that brings the population out in force and this is a welcome to take home to. now if you're going to be an all to explore one thing you have to how it is plenty of stamina so all you have decided to enter all to.